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Author Brosseau, Ray, compilor.

Title Looking forward; life in the twentieth century as predicted in the pages of American magazines from 1895 to 1905 / Created and compiled by Ray Brosseau. Interpretive text by Ralph K. Andrist.

Publication Info. New York : American Heritage Press [1970]

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Location Call No. Status
 Manchester, Main Library - Basement Materials  917.303 Q    Check Shelf
 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  917.3 B79    Check Shelf
Description 352 pages : illustrations ; 35 cm
Contents Foreword -- The city of tomorrow -- The breadwinner -- Science and invention -- The other Americans -- Getting there -- Home and hearth -- Growing up -- The college man -- The world beyond our shores -- The body beautiful -- The American way.
Summary Opinions, facts, musings, and sometimes dogmatic assertions of those who lived and wrote between 1895 and 1905, from the files of such journals as: The Saturday Evening Post, Harper's Weekly, Collier's, Puck, Life (the long-defunct humor magazine), Judge, Woman's Home Companion, Scientific American, Popular Mechanics, Country Life in America, Ladies' Home Journal, and others.
Subject United States -- Civilization -- 1865-1918.
United States -- Social life and customs -- 1865-1918.
Prophecies.
Added Author Andrist, Ralph K.
ISBN 007008131X
9780070081314
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